I wanted to do something special for my sister-in-law’s birthday this year. With her love of horses, it was easy to figure out what to paint for her. 🙂 Using a 5×7 die-cut wood panel I kept the color palette simple with white, blue, pink and black. I did very light washes of color to establish where I wanted to the highlights to be.

Working more details into the painting, it’s starting to come together.

Final detail touches. I added some pink hues to add a sense of warmth.

I’m testing out some different eye techniques on 2 x 3 canvas. The eyes are one of the most difficult things for me to get right when using acrylics.

First I went for the normal sparkly look.

Meh.

Then I tried a close up of someone crying.

And then I thought, I should paint vampire eyes.

Lets face it, vampires rock. Oh, and of course the vampire should be crying blood instead of normal tears. Because, you know, there are simply not enough paintings out there of vampires shedding tears of blood.